Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  I don't think we're inconsistent with any other police service in Ontario, quite frankly. I follow the provincial legislation and regulations, the adequacy standards in that respect. One of the challenges with keeping families well informed, or as informed as they may want to be

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Absolutely. Certainly when a charge is laid they are informed. If the individual, the assailant, is held for bail hearing, they are informed. If the accused is released from jail, there are systems and processes in place to inform the victims of crime and advise them of the condi

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  There is a lot of good work going on in partnership with the courts and the police to aid and support victims of crime.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  There's a program called I Am a Kind Man that I've seen in a number of communities across the province of Ontario. It really goes towards educating, raising awareness, and emphasizing, supporting, and validating positive behaviours and actions. To my knowledge, we've had it in

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  In short, yes, I am in agreement. I want to talk about safety and security, the sense of it, the feeling of it, and some of the challenges with it. What we need to acknowledge as well in some of our stand-alone first nations police services is that the police are not always ther

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Sometimes it can be threats of violence, verbal threats.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  That would account for a significant amount.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  I would include verbal threats of criminal violence, yes.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  I would suggest that it's very low.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  I think it makes a dramatic difference, and I think it's a fairly fair assertion.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Indeed it was, thank you. It came directly from the Statistics Canada table. Those are the stats that we presented in this particular report. I think that you're talking about splitting violent acts with weapons and non-weapons.

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  I think it's a holistic approach in terms of tackling a number of social factors, from basic health, to clean drinking water, education, and proper housing. These are all basic, foundational core things that are required for any human, any family across Canada. Without these, it

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  I can say when I was chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation that looked after most of the fly-in—

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Well right now, I'm in Rama. It's a fairly healthy community, and it may be noteworthy that it's fairly prosperous with the casino, quite frankly. It's not that the casino is the answer by any stretch of the imagination, but what it did was generate an economy. It generated a dem

Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women committee  Regrettably, I'm in the same position. I haven't heard of it either.